Crow babies have your back

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    I feed my local crows peanuts but they’ve never left any gifts for me. I thought that they were occasionally leaving berries and robin egg shells for me, but I eventually realized they were just puking that stuff up to make room for the peanuts.

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      In smaller groups people absolutely do support each other. The larger and more dense a population the less connected humans are.

      • kofe@lemmy.world
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        Voting trends from rural America beg to differ in terms of support

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          They help each other out locally, in person.

          They vote against things where they have to pay or care about people they haven’t met.

            • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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              Well that’s an education problem. Look at how many maga voters genuinely seem to be under the impression that foreign nationals would pay the trade tariffs. Truly is an indictment of the American education system that it’s produced adults that don’t know what a tax is.

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          Americans as a group are genuinely quite nice but what they know about the rest of the world wouldn’t fill the back of a postage stamp, is a new a bit more they wouldn’t make the same mistakes.

      • CluckN@lemmy.world
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        Why would god design the human hand to fit so perfectly around the throat of a goose?

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              Animals benefit from the tactical advantage that humans are generally uncomfortable with killing an animal with their bare hands, even if they’re being obnoxious.

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                Modern humans that is, our ancestors would have fucked a goose up bare handed without hesitation.

                Kinda crazy to think how bones and blood were such a big part of daily life in the past

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                  By “modern humans” do you mean “anatomically modern” or “21st century modern”? Because it’s not like we’ve just recently invented empathy and cuteness. People have been tolerating asshole animals for a very long time.

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        Even about half of those are actually fine - it’s just the blood sucking females that I cannot love (I’m still talking about mosquitoes).

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          Only good mosquitoes are Toxorhynchites. Gotta love midges that can’t suck blood and instead eat the larva of other mosquitoes.

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    I want to befriend a corvid so bad, but

    1. My dog would terrorize them, and I don’t want that for them or her.
    2. They don’t really hang out near where I live.
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      We have dogs, so I just feed them discreetly in the park, when I am having a walk. I taught my dog not to chase them on walks, so they dare to come close. I have befriended the local jackdaws, crows, and magpies so far. They all know where I live, and recognize me, no matter what I am wearing.

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    I would feed them but I already feed all the local cats who attack all the nearby birds. So we don’t have any of those around here for me to feed sadly.